Surrey needs to cool the rhetoric and find a recovery-focused approach to its growing drug problem, addictions experts say. The city is home to a growing level of drug abuse, mounting overdoses and frequent deaths, causing many to call for safe injection sites. Last year, Surrey Fire Services responded to an average of 4.5 overdoses […]
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Former drug user, health centres speak in favour of safer sites Ray Harrison has seen people shoot up using water from toilets and puddles. He’s pulled friends who were overdosing in the street to a phone booth to call 911, so they wouldn’t be tracked by police. Now Harrison – a former drug user himself
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Health officials say location of new supervised injection sites won’t be released before they are approved Five new supervised injection sites could be opening somewhere in the Vancouver area, but health officials will not release the locations until they are approved by Health Canada. Health Minister Terry Lake says the province wants to open the
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Fareed looks at one town’s effort to combat the heroin epidemic, through a proposed legal injection center. And how are other countries combating the drug?
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This story is part of A Killer High: A Globe examination into the rise of fentanyl in Canada. Before there was fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid at the centre of an ongoing national crisis, there was OxyContin, another drug that took the lives of vulnerable populations. And before Oxy, there was heroin. In Vancouver’s impoverished
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Some politicians are expressing concern about public safety and demanding more consultation after Toronto’s medical officer of health recommended the city move ahead with three supervised drug injection sites. Proponents of the project, on the other hand, say that letting users shoot up drugs like heroin under nurse supervision will save lives and actually improve
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The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre is planning to consult the public this spring about adding a safe-injection site to its building at Rideau and Nelson streets, says the man who runs the Centre’s drug-treatment programs. “We’re basically on the same path as Toronto,” Rob Boyd said Monday morning following the news that Toronto’s board
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Toronto’s top doctor is calling for the opening of three safe-injection sites at existing health facilities downtown, a move which would follow Vancouver and join the list of cities around the globe giving addicts a safe place to do drugs. “Research shows that supervised injection services save lives, reduce drug overdoses and limit the spread
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America’s addiction to opioids and heroin have reached epidemic levels. Right now, 78 people die per day from use and overdose of such drugs, forcing the conversation of governors and party leaders to address a strategy that involves treatment of addiction in conjunction with punishment for use and possession of illicit drugs. The shift in
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You were always “the fun one”. On our summer visits to New York, after the long drive south from Ontario, it is you I want to see most of all. When your daughter Sophie was born, I was five. As I grew older, I envied her for having you as a father. When your mother,
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Canada Post has provided notification of restarting their operations on December 17, 2024. As Canada Post ramps up and stabilizes their services, the BC-CfE will continue the following measures on an interim basis to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
